Hi all.
This article highlights why using everything online could be a problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/14/google-suffers-worldwide-outage-with-gmail-youtube-and-other-services-down
The article is quite technical in nature, but simply put, google ran out of space.
On a slightly more detailed note, a google component failed to alocate enough space to its authentication programs.
So those ran out of space.
Since that happened no one could log in.
These crashed as they were out of space and everything else did becauseit ran out of space.
There are links to an article on amazon with things going down.
For most of us, stuff just didn’t work for a bit, but security systems were effected, fire systems, and the like.
Fortunately nothing major happened except some people had to pull out speakers and stuff to stop them playing, group accounts from groups.io bounced including mine due to the outage.
Some things failed to sync properly etc.
But can you imagine if all the nukes were on google and it went down.
What would the computers think, how do they know if something going down is not an attack but a bit of failing or full hardware.
Wars were almost started if you listen to youtube from bears tripping sensors and bugged chips.
With everything going on the cloud there may become a day when the world ends because someone’s ups got a flat battery.
With systems getting quieter and quieter, if something fails you may not notice it.
As another update please read this extra article.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/15/22176958/google-gmail-errors-down-outage-stadia
It seems google still had issues today.
The biggest will be bouncing emails from a lot of things.
groups.io is effected by this, and I had to unbounce this morning and just now.
Google have managed to get themselves in order though and it should all be ok.
For those still having issues follow instructions to unbounce yourself, you may be automatically unbounced as google did notify most previders.
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